TWO YEARS AGO, the National Science Foundation-funded "Sun-to-Ice" project headed up by EOS scientists set out to establish a firm connection between explosive events on the sun and an associated chemical signature locked away in polar ice cores. Read More…

Space and Earth Systems Science

Renaissance Woman

WHEN KATHARINE DUDERSTADT arrived at the Earth Systems Research Center just over a year ago as the newest member of the Sun-to-Ice project, she was given the task of running the Whole Atmosphere Climate Community Model developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Read More…

Earth Systems Science

Back to the Future (Part Two)

IN THE LAST ISSUE of Spheres, we introduced climate modeler Matt Huber who arrived in September from Purdue University. In part two of the interview, Huber talks specifically about his paleoclimate work concerning two warm-Earth epochs, the large uncertainties inherent in making climate predictions based on general circulation model runs… Read More…

Earth Systems Science

State of Flux

SINCE 2003, the Bartlett Experimental Forest in the White Mountains has been New Hampshire's only site for a state-of-the-art instrument that takes the pulse of the landscape continuously. Read More…

Space Science

Cosmic Tower of Babel

THE NETWORK of neutron monitors that have dotted the globe since the 1950s, including those operated by UNH on the Durham campus and atop Mount Washington, remains the most advanced method for ground-based measurements of the cosmic ray flux on Earth. Read More…

Earth Systems Science

Touchdown in the Ozone

UNTIL THIS PAST FEBRUARY, Barry Rock had no idea that over twenty years of scientific data gathered by students and teachers in UNH's inquiry-based Forest Watch program were a mirror image of crucial environmental findings recently released by state officials. Read More…